Cacao Peanut Butter Cake Pops (GF/DF)

Compared to other places I have travelled to, Vietnam is an easy place to eat gluten free. So many rice options, rice noodles, rice dishes with sides, marinated tofu, BBQ meats. No bread or flour involved in most cases. But chances are at some point you’ll have rice coming out your ears! It’s at that times that it would be nice to have some gluten free bread or cake. And THAT again, is hard to find in Vietnam. Not to even mention some fun variation of cake like these cacao peanut butter cake pops!

Combine it with the fact that ovens are not widely used in most households meaning it’s hard to find to buy and it’s hard to make at home. Luckily enough we have a microwave oven in our rental here. I know what you think… yeay, a microwave oven. That’s not really an oven. But you know I have to say that I am surprised by how well it makes breads and cakes!

And just as I was feeling sorry for my by-choice-gluten-free-self I met a new friend who is allergic to gluten (so no choice to make any exceptions!) and can’t have dairy. So I challenged myself to make something yummy that wouldn’t only be ok for her to eat but also fun and a treat to you no matter what your restrictions or no restrictions. Because let’s face this. Just because we’re gluten free, we don’t just want to have the step sister ‘gluten free’ alternative bread. We want to have a DELICIOUS bread.

So here go some cute, moist and yummy cacao peanut butter cake pops. Fully stop. No lesser version of any other cake or brownie for matching restrictive diets. It only so happens for them to be free of gluten, dairy and sugar.